The Camões Prize in 2016 was Monday awarded unanimously to the writer Raduan Nassar, 80, the 12th Brazilian to receive what is considered the most important literary award for the Portuguese-speaking authors. The jury highlighted “the extraordinary quality of its language” and “poetic force of his prose.”
“Through fiction, the author reveals, in the universe of his work, the complexity of human relationships in plans hardly accessible to other modes of discourse, “says the jury’s justification, adding that” often this revelation is rough and uncomfortable, and it is not uncommon to address taboo subjects. ” The jury also highlights “the rigorous use of a language whose plasticity is printed in different verifiable discursive records in a work that emphasizes the density above the extension”
With only three published books -. Novels Ploughing archaic (1975) and a Glass of Rage (1978) and the storybook Girl the path (1994) – the smallness of the work does not prevent Raduan Nassar is long considered by critics one of the greats of Brazilian literature at the level of a Guimarães Rosa or a Clarice Lispector.
If Nassar uniqueness earned him early a circle of faithful admirers, and his novels have achieved some international success already in the first half of the 80s, when they were translated into French and English, the popularity of his work increased significantly with the film adaptation of a Glass of Rage in 1999 a realization of aluizio abranches, and Left of the Father in 2001 in a Luiz Fernando Carvalho movie.
this year, Nassar was one of 13 writers chosen for the longlist MAN Booker International Prize, with the ingelsa translation a Glass of Rage , but did not get the list of six finalists, which included the Angolan José Eduardo Aguausa.
Nassar is known for extreme rarity of his public appearances, which came to give a particular weight to his presence, along Dilma Rousseff at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on 31 March, as part of a meeting with Artists and Intellectuals in Defense of Democracy. “Those who try to promote Dilma output arrogate today, shamelessly, as the ethics holders but will be despised tomorrow,” then said the writer, cited by Folha de S. Paulo . While recognition of the author’s quality is frankly consensus, this his recent intervention has also give your choice for the Camoes Prize this year an inevitable political dimension.
With a cash value of one hundred thousand euros, the prize was announced in the evening at the Hotel Tivoli by the Secretary of State for Culture, Miguel Honoured after the meeting of the jury, which this year included a teacher and essayist Paula Morão and the poet and columnist Pedro Mexia, academics, critics and writers Brazilian Flora Süssekind and Sergio Alcides do Amaral, and still the Mozambican author of the Rosary Lourenço, rector of the Polytechnic University of Maputo, and essayist Sao Tome Innocence Mata, currently based in Macau.
Established in 1988 by governments of Portugal and Brazil, the Camões prize is awarded to “a Portuguese author who has contributed to the enrichment of the literary and cultural heritage of the common language,” says its protocol, as revised in 1999. the agreement requires that the prize is alternately awarded in Portuguese and Brazilian territory, and history suggests that also has prevailed intended to balance the number of Portuguese winners and Brazilians, as well as the concern represented the various African literatures.
Before the prize now assigned to Nassar, Portugal and Brazil were tied with 11 authors from each country. Miguel Torga was the first writer to receive the Camões in 1989 and the award was once again in Portugal ten times: Vergílio Ferreira received it in 1992, José Saramago in 1995, Eduardo Lourenço in 1996, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen in 1999 Eugénio de Andrade in 2001, Maria Velho da Costa in 2002, Agustina Bessa-Luís in 2004, António Lobo Antunes in 2007, Manuel António Pina in 2011 and Helia Correia in 2015.
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